Human rights report: 127,000 Houthi violations in Yemen in 8 years old

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms said on Sunday it had documented more than 127,000 violations committed by the Houthi militia against Yemeni civilians since its coup in September 2014, including more than 14 killings.

In a published report in on International Human Rights Day (December 10), the Network said its team on the ground documented approximately (127,260) incidents of violations against civilians involving the Houthi militia during the period from December 21, 2014 to June 30, 2022.

He added that the militias killed 14,557 civilians, including (3,618) children, including (412) infants and (1,974) women, according to the monitoring and documentation mechanism carried out by the network’s field team through the team’s civilian visits.

The Houthi militia also injured 33,438 civilians, including 5,875 women and 4,334 children.

According to the report, Houthi mines killed 3,673 civilians, including 647 children and 462 women, and injured 3,135 civilians, including 741 children and 362 women, during the eight-year coup. About 798 citizens were permanently disabled, including 397 children.

The report stated that the Houthi militia had arrested and kidnapped about 16,804 civilians, and 4,201 kidnapped civilians are still in its prisons, whose information and data have been verified, including 389 politicians, 340 media176 children and 374 women.

The report confirmed that there are still 1,317 citizens who are still forcibly disappeared, including 84 women and 76 children. The Houthis also subjected 4,012 detainees, abductees and forcibly missing people to psychological and physical torture, taking them as human shields and liquidating inside Houthi prisons, of which 463 inmates were taken as human shields.

The report revealed that 671 inmates were killed inside Houthi prisons due to liquidation, abandonment and heart attacks after being denied access to crisis treatment, kidney failure and paralysis following torture, including 98 inmates who were injected with toxic injections and died days after their release.

As regards the violations that have affected public facilities, the team in the field of the network it has monitored 8,475 violations over the eight years, of which 935 cases of damage and closure of service and health facilities and 1,279 cases of looting and seizure of government facilities.

It also documented about 4018 cases of bombing and attacks on government buildings, 60 cases of damage to archaeological sites, 3370 cases of violations of places of worship, 62 cases of booby traps and bombing of places of worship, 132 cases of bombing public bridges , and 1433 cases of looting of a state vehicle.

The Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedoms held the international community and the United Nations Security Council accountable for protecting Yemenis from terrorism carried out by the Houthi militia. And he demanded that the Houthi group be swiftly placed on the terrorist list.

It also called on the international community and the United Nations Security Council to isolate this group and subject them to UN and Security Council human rights resolutions, treaties and charters, and international humanitarian law.

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